As the country goes to the polls, writers explore, in fiction and non-fiction, its identity and values — and where these suggest it is heading ...

the books coming out of Germany had a confused, bitter, gnarled violence foreshadowing the impending catastrophe. It was probably one of the ugliest periods in literary history. Hermann Broch ...

With her books slated for the bonfires, Helen Keller confronted German students in an open letter: "History has taught you nothing if you think you can kill ideas. Tyrants have tried to do that ...

In “Summer of Fire and Blood,” Lyndal Roper tells the story of the serfs who fought for a better life and the elites who ...

He demonstrated that fascism had its own intellectual roots and showed how ideas, theories and an antisemitic “ethos” ...

It doesn’t look bad at all at first glance. Every year around 9,000 titles are still being published, about two-thirds of which are by German-speaking authors. And sales of children’s and young adult ...

JCR sent the then-new university books on numerous subjects, including Jewish religious texts, science, history, and German literature. In the same time period, JCR also sent books to other Jewish ...